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verb

‘And since then it has been leagued with various investigations into the historical Jesus.’

‘His policies of appeasement leagued him frequently with the prudent Phocion.’

‘The marquess of Montrose, initially a Covenanter, leagued with the Irish to invade in the north-west and with Alasdair MacColla turned a feud between the Scots-Irish MacDonalds and Argyll's Campbells into a powerful threat.’

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Pronunciation:

league

Main definitions of league in English

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noun

‘A league was three standard miles, so fifty leagues was one hundred fifty miles.’

‘The result is an economy leagues ahead in the production and utilization of information technology.’

‘Between the outer wall and the city are four leagues of land filled with farms, orchards and houses.’

‘By any basic living-standard or quality-of-life measurement, it is leagues ahead of most developing nations.’

‘The tunnel measured ten leagues east to west, and it covered that distance in an arrow-straight line.’

‘There may very well not have been any such series; for example, it is not very likely that Hume had ever actually witnessed the continuous movement of a letter over a distance of two hundred leagues.’

‘I receive a letter, which, upon opening it, I perceive by the handwriting and subscription to have come from a friend, who says he is two hundred leagues distant.’

‘She was not permitted to travel more than two leagues (five miles) from Coppet and began to receive word that orders for her arrest were pending.’

‘Methinks we have two leagues to go, so let us put some miles between us and here ere we sleep.’

‘He then flung it across the gap; it briefly illuminated the other side, a full twenty leagues away.’

‘It was set on a rise amidst an almost flat plain of land that seemed to stretch for leagues to the north.’